Challenge Poker Stars

I really cant get into Poker Stars at the moment, I dont like the lobby or anything about it really. To try and motivate myself to get involved on there I am going to set myself a challenge.

Whilst waiting for games on Fulltilt I am going to have the poker stars lobby open and try and build up from $10 games to $200 games. Hopefully this will help me get used to the lobby, blind structures, game speeds and software.

My challenge is as follows:

Start with 20 buyin's for $10 heads up games, play $10 games until I have 20 buyin's for $20 games, then enough for 20 $30 games and so on. So basically I need the balances to go like this:

$200 - $10 games
$400 - $20 games
$600 - $30 games
$800 - $40 games
$1000 - $50 games
$1600 - $80 games
$2000 - $100 games
$4000 - $200 games

I am not sure how long this will take me as obviously I will be concentrating more on Fulltilt as that's where the good money is for me. I am just hoping it will pass time, build up a good bank and get me interested in Poker Stars.

I have reset my name on sharkscope so that I can follow my progress better - Pirus82

So - Day 1 Pirus82 [Reset on ‘26-Oct-09 23:47 (GMT)’] 0 £N/A £N/A N/A% £N/A N/A N/A PokerStars SNG Only



Update - going to give it a few days first, played a few games and the slow structures and lobby annoyed the hell out of me. Glad they were only $10 games. I think I played 6 won 2 lost 4 or something like that. Struggling to even get a game to be honest, as soon as a player sits someone insta sits you cant even scope them :o

Mayweather vs Pacquiao March 13th HOPEFULLY!

It seems that this fight will be going ahead, I am so over the moon it's unreal! Waiting for the venue to be confirmed, hopefully Vegas but I would quite fancy New York also but as soon as it's confirmed I am booking.

Not sure who I want to win really, Pacman is the better human but I think Mayweather is the better fighter and deserves it. Either way they are both making $40m each from the fight so who really cares?

End of November

Shame its over really one of my best months so far! Had a good few days betting also towards the end, I think on the 30th I won £2000, everything I bet on won it was unreal.

Have not played as much as I would have liked since I have been back, in fact all I have been doing is sleeping really! Waking up, playing for 3 or 4 hours then going back to sleep, slowly starting to come out of that now and I think its down to the flu I had but I needed to catch up on sleep really anyway.

I came back to the UK with the plan I was going to save money and not spend I have done the total opposite..... eating out most nights buying things I don't need and I have just gone and bought a new home cinema system (tv, surround sound system, stand etc) and to top it off I have just gone and bought one of these.............



I got the sport edition, not sure if the one in the picture is the same, its due to arrive in 1-2 weeks I can't wait!

This month I just want to reach iron man and take in an average amount of winnings due to it being the festive season. Obviously I wont have as much time to play poker with shopping needed to be done, meals with families, drinks out etc but I am looking forward to staying sober new years eve and killing all the drunks at the tables.

I really can't get into stars at the moment the poker lobby is awful compared to fulltilt. I was really hoping it would be better so that I could reach some form of super nova on there. I am definitely not raking enough to hit any form of super nova elite but I wouldn't have minded hitting super nova and getting some bonuses.

Oh well back to the grind, GL!

Florida over with.....

Overall a good relaxing trip, Vegas was my best ever trip yet and I can't wait to go back for once. I ended finishing $18,000 up for the 2 months I was there. What is more important though is I have realised how much I can actually earn from poker. Before I left my daily targets were WAY low. I am now looking at 4 x my daily target now and that's before I start on stars. When I get on stars I hope to double that eventually.

Will be going back to Florida in the near future, already have my flights booked. Hope to go on a few holidays before then and maybe even Vegas again if Pacman fights in the near future.

Have had the flu for the last 4 days so not much poker has been played. I decided after Vegas I wouldn't withdraw again until I doubled my roll, I have done that now and made my first withdrawal today. Feels a lot more comfortable and anti tilting now that I have doubled the roll. Next step is to get money into stars and start my assault on there also.

$8250 up so far for this month and I hope to increase that by a hell of a lot more come the end of the month now I am back home on the PC with the big monitor and playing slightly higher stakes.

Oh well back to bed to catch up on some much needed sleep!

GL

Vegas trip over with

Oh well back to boring old Florida :)

Probably my best Vegas trip so far and I actually came back with money in my pocket for once. Put in quite a lot of hours on the poker tables and roughly came out even which is a huge improvement for me considering I suck at live poker. Actually thought I played pretty well. Was very unlucky with some hands having to lay down kings, queens etc but if it was last year I was going broke with them sort of hands.

The boxing was amazing and will be 100% going to Pacmans next fight, hopefully against Mayweather! The Palazzo is by far the best hotel in Vegas in my eyes. I dont even think the Wynn comes even close to it.

Done well on roulette and OK on blackjack in fact the only thing I really lost on was sports betting on the boxing.

One thing has pissed me off though. We used the Palazzo to check in our luggage and when we got to the airport that night it didn't turn up. I had my car keys in the bag, my house key in the car so I was stranded at the airport.

Luckily had a spare set of house keys elsewhere so wasted $120 getting a taxi and now have to go back today to collect my luggage and the car.

I go back on Friday night but have already booked a flight back here soon! Dreading being in the cold, wet, dark miserable UK with the miserable people and the shit food and alcohol. The UK really is a shit place to live once you have gone elsewhere.

October Update

Had a proper FUCK MY LIFE moment today. £500 on Chelsea at evens, they go 1-0 down vs Athletico Madrid, anyways I put another £50 on at 14s with 20 mins left. They get one back so I login to my other betfair account as I have reached my deposit limit for the day, I put £50 in and throw that on Athetlico to cover just incase they score. Whilst doing this Chelsea score the moment my bet is matched, so thats £50 down the drain. Happy days though I have a huge green on Chelsea! I go to lay them @ 1.09 then realise that I am on the wrong account. Oopps.

No worries I login to the other account, press on the market and it doesnt load. I refresh the page 3 times and finally I get the market up. I put in my lay for 1.14 as Athetlico had a free kick, 2 seconds to go to match it and booooom Athetlico score with 30 seconds left of injury time. FUCK MY LIFE YOU BASTARDSSSSSSSSSS

Anyways, October was a great month. The calming influence of Azimut helped me get back on track with my poker and my profits have shot through the roof. He also gave me a great insight to stars and supernova elite. I am thinking about going for it next year but to be honest I may just spend another year grinding heads up games to build a decent enough roll to play stakes on stars where I wont have to play 24 hours a day to reach supernova elite.

Ended the month about $9000 up although I lost plenty of that to Azi the crazy golf pro hustler. Already up $3000 this month and I go to vegas in 8 days to watch the Pacman v Cotto fight. Can't wait! Just booked a suite at the Palazzo for 4 nights and managed to find direct flights from Florida to Vegas which is a touch really because I hate the 8 hours flights hanging about at other airports changing over planes etc.

I am looking forward to getting home really. I know it sounds mad but I miss my pets and nephew and I am looking forward to sitting infront of a big screen with a big mouse and a big keyboard with no annoying laptop in sight. I might just smash this one up on the last day because there have been days out here I have been dying to do it but have stopped myself. I will miss this place as soon as I leave but I will be back here very very soon and hopefully for a lot longer :)!

Back to the grind GL

Quick Catchup

Not been paying much attention to this lately mainly because of Florida. Love it out here so much. The way of life, prices, customer service, people, weather - EVERYTHING! USA is the greatest country in the world.

September I really did not play much.... the 18 days counting up to my flight were slow and depressing and spent most of my time not really having the mental urge to play poker once I got here I played for a week, done well and Punterz friend came out and we done a lot of shit for a few weeks so never had much time to play really. I made about $4000 on poker but made about £4k on football betting. However I lost half of that on bastard NFL bets when running into the sickest luck ever. Not to mention about 4 or 5 accumulators losing in the last minute for anything from £700-£1k.

Started this month GREAT went $2750 up in no time whatsoever then ran into the sickest luck ever. I swear I was thinking it was fixed at some point. AK to any Ace rag losing - Aces all in pre losing Kings to ace rag and KJ losing getting it in with 2 pair on the flop and losing v 1 pair, everyone hitting non stop flushes etc anything that could go wrong did go wrong.

I seem to be over the worst now, I went from $2750 up to $1000 down. I am now up $1500 for the month which is OK but sick really if I never had that disgusting run I could be up anything now. With rakeback its about $2500 so its not all that bad. I haven't gambled much this month. Had a bet on MLS so I could watch it on the TV here, Chivas I had to win, they were 1-0 up and conceded in the 87th min or something, same shit but wait! They get a 93rd min penalty and .............. MISS! FUCK MY LIFE

Anyway Punterz has gone home for a week and is coming back out next week as is Azimut so its going to be gambling heaven next week so I am doing my best to save up so I can hustle them all at crazy golf as I am the undisputed crazy golf champion and always will be!

Just having a few martini's before bed, felt like shit yesterday and ended up having 14 hours sleep, feel a bit spaced out today but just glad I am not coming down with anything because that's what it felt like.

Anyway I will get some photos up when I can be bothered for all the people who don't read this blog.

GL

End of month review

Well not such a bad month overall, it could have been much better if it wasn't for Tiger Woods blowing up costing me around £3000 in profits and bets and head fucking change of mind that cost me £4k in bets and profits on the footy but overall a good month and I am happy with it considering I go away in just over 2 weeks it was much needed!

With me being in America in a few weeks and having lots of time on my hands I hope to make a lot more this month. Just hope I don't have any tilt sessions. I am booked to go to Vegas in November to watch the Pacman v Cotto fight - I cant wait!

Hopefully Azimut and Animal will come out to Florida for a visit also if they do it will be a great laugh. After Florida this year I will really have to put some effort in to get back into the gym and get fit again. Totally unfit and starting to get out of shape too. Going to let myself go in America although I hope to be doing weights every day but when I come back I will limit drinking to going out only and hammer the gym 5 times a week once my body becomes used to it.

Oh well 14 days, 22 hrs, 23 mins until your next flight with us... COME ON!!

Mid month update

Got back my poker losses + a bit more had a bad few days though and done about $1k. Was up £2k on footy bets this weekend and managed to lose it all on Woods. Somehow after being 4 shots ahead after 2 days and 2 shots ahead on the final day he lost and played shite. Never seems to win when I back him :(

Paid for the car in florida and now only need $1500 more to pay for the rest of the villa then I am all set. Got a lot of work to do though $1500 + my $1k back + some spending money in the next 30 days is going to be stressful when I am not playing well.

End of month - thank god!

No idea where I ended up this month!! The fact that sharkscope was down for about a week when I was flying on the poker kinda fucked up my tracking of it all. It says I am £765 down for the month but I reckon I am about £2k up on poker + rakeback and bonuses which is pretty shite really. Lost about £2k on gambling so I probably broke even this month but I have no idea and to be honest I am just glad the month is over.

August is proving to be a good month so far, I have to really put the hours in now to pay for florida I am hoping to have the car paid off by next week and then I have about a month and a bit to pay for the rest of the villa and some spending money. Not too worried about spending money to be honest as I will hopefully win money whilst over there and also build up my roll but would be nice to go over there with a good few thousand spare.

Wont post till I have paid for the car now, its going to be a stressful long month but hopefully a good one!

GL